[Vicki]

What would the benefit be to gangstas to shoot up the mall? None. They would suffer greatly for no benefit. Drug dealers? Hardly. What result could come other than a harsh crackdown on them? Robbers? They didn't even enter the stores.

Also consider that the likely survivability of such a mall shooting is very low for the shooters, ie a suicide mission. If anyone has any reasonable theory as to why people would do such a thing other than Islam, let's hear it.

What you said makes sense. These guys were not robbers and it doesn't seem to be a gang retaliation since they randomly shot people.

[ken5050]

Decoy?

[Willie Green]

,i>These guys were not robbers and it doesn't seem to be a gang retaliation since they randomly shot people.

I'll take a wild guess that they're a variant of the Columbine kooks.
A little older, perhaps, but basicly pathetic losers whose warped jack@$$ "logic" tells 'em that it'd be "cool" to reenact the stuff they watch on TV.

Remember: whacknuts don't behave rationally. That's why they're whacknuts.

[archy]

What you said makes sense. These guys were not robbers and it doesn't seem to be a gang retaliation since they randomly shot people.

Maybe. The most seriously wounded victim has been described in AP accounts as an Army recruiter.